中英语言对比精选课件.ppt

关于中英语言对比
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Read the following sentences and figure out what they mean.
女子体态娴静美好姽,闲体行姽姽也。从女,危声。犹頠之为头,娴习也。——《说文》 既姽婳于幽静兮,又婆娑乎人间。——宋玉《神女赋》
Paith hareted tha orata, teret ita, yea gotre tha merar.
gui
wei
po suo
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Questions for Discussion
Do you think which language is easier to learn, Chinese or English? Why?
Do the Chinese strokes convey meaning? For example, what does it mean by the stroke (笔画) “丿”?
Do the English letters convey meaning? For example, what does it mean by “W”?
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Chinese is largely an ideographic (表意) language.
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象形字
Pictographic characters
会意字
Associative compounds
指事字
Self-explanatory characters
形声字
phonogram
抬，踢，吃，泳
转注字:颠与顶，窍与空
Mutually explanatory or synonymous
假借字：命令与县令
Phonetically loaned characters
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Phonograms form the biggest category of the Chinese characters. Characters of this category can be viewed as composed of radicals (义符) and the phonetic component (声符).
扌亢
radical
phonetic component
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What does the radical “竹” mean in the characters like “笑”and ”笨”？How about ”王” in “球”？
Does “每” function as the phonetic component in the character “海”？And “工” in “江”, “杠”and “扛”？
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儒：熟悉诗书礼乐为贵族服务的术士，其名本寓柔义。
嚅：柔弱胆怯，欲言又止貌。
孺：弱小之人，幼儿。
蠕：虫类柔软的身体缓慢、柔和地爬行。
濡：柔弱，柔软。
嬬：柔弱。
薷：药草，柔软植物。
壖：疏松柔软的土地。
懦：性格软弱。
糯：粘性、软性的麦子，其名亦寓柔软义。
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The history of Chinese characters
Chinese characters
Inscriptions carved on oracle-bones and tortoise shells (甲骨文)
Inscription on ancient bronze objects (金文)
The style of calligraphy adopted in the Qin Dynasty (大篆→小篆)
The style of calligraphy adopted in the Han Dynasty (小篆)
The regular style (楷书)
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The number of Chinese characters
Chinese has 500,000 meaningful morphemes, which are generally characters, of which about 7000 are in common use.
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